As others have said Madiba and Graça Machel, on behalf of our nation and our government, many happy returns on your 10th wedding anniversary, and to you, Madiba, Happy 90th Birthday: may you have many more.

His figure patrolling the sideline - thick-rimmed glasses and windbreaker, tie and khaki pants - was as unmistakable at Penn State as its classic blue and white uniforms and the name Happy Valley, a place where no one came close to Paterno's stature.